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Prompt #5: How does your book begin?  First describe the events that start your story.  Then tell if this is a good, effective way for the author to start the book. Explain why or why not.  What would you change?

My book Wuthering Heights begins with the narrator Mr.Lockwood writing in his diary. Lockwood is returning from a visit to his landlord. He talks about how beautiful England is as a country.  He is new to Wuthering Heights & his landlord is Mr. Heathcliff. Thrushcross Grange is where Lockwood is renting a room from Heathcliff’s. At the beginning of the book, it’s somewhat hard to understand what’s going on in the first chapter. I think it’s because he starts the book with his diary entry from 1801. The way he talks about Heathcliff when he first meets him is confusing because Heathcliff does not shake his hand but, Lockwood still considers Heathcliff a gentleman. “ As I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name” (pg. 1). It seems as though Heathcliff doesn't really want Lockwood there. This was a bad way to start the story because he leads with present events instead of past events. It probably would've made more sense if he'd lead with the story of Heathcliff first because I couldn’t really tell who the main character was. As you read more into the chapters you realize Heathcliff is the main character, not Lockwood.

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“I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed, and behaved as well, and had a chance of being as rich as he will be!” pg. 56

This quote is important because Heathcliff wishes he'd had a better lifestyle. If he hadn't been an orphan, dressed well, and had a better upbringing he probably wouldn't be such an outcast.

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I recommend reading Wuthering Heights because it's different from other love stories. The girl and boy don't end up together and live happily ever after but, it somewhat has a happy ending.

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The story begins in the 1770s. Lockwood leaves Yorkshire in 1802. Takes place in Wuthering Heights or Thrushcross Grange.

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Heathcliff
Lockwood
Joseph
Catherine Earnshaw
Edgar Linton
Cathy Linton
Linton Heathcliff
Hareton Earnshaw
Ellen (Nelly) Dean
Mr.& Mrs. Earnshaw
Hindley Earnshaw
Frances Earnshaw
Mr. & Mrs. Linton
Isabella
Zillah

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The novel explores two families the Earnshaws and the Lintons. Heathcliff, an orphan taken in by the Earnshaws, He is the main character of the book. It's centered around his love for Catherine Earnshaw, then by his desire for revenge against her for what he believed to be rejection.

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Born in England, on July 30, 1818. Emily was the fifth child of Reverend Patrick Bronte and his wife, Maria Branwell Bronte. She enjoyed her quiet life and read extensively. She began to make up stories with her siblings. She was a teacher for a brief time. Some of Emily's earliest known works involve a fictional world called Gondal, which she created with her sister Anne. She wrote both prose and poems about this imaginary place. Wuthering Heights, was published in December 1847. After Bronte's death the book developed its reputation as a literary masterwork. It was Emily's only published novel. She died of tuberculosis on December 19, 1848.

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By: Emily Bronte